1 Dec
2006
1 Dec
'06
7:18 a.m.
Bill Allen wrote:
At the risk of repeating myself, in the time that
I've been just
reading this thread (not to mention the time that you've been putting
into trying the stuff mentioned) I could have downloaded 64Studio, set
aside a 5-10 GB partition, installed it, and had a working system with
all the real-time patched AMD64 music-enabled system that you can get.
Yes, you've got to dual boot, I do it all the time. Ubuntu is my
family system that we use for work and play, but when I want to do
music I boot into 64Studio. It's simply a lot easier than trying to
make a general purpose distro into a music enabled one.
Hear the man. I started writing a similar reply yesterday, but Bill's
said it better here. Given the availability of multimedia-optimized
distros I just don't see the point of putting myself through what the
distro maintainers have already been through and mastered. Maybe it's an
age thing, at mine I get someone else to do the heavy lifting. :)
Really, I work with Linux audio software to make music. I lost interest
in mucking about with kernel configurations long ago. Yes, I'm glad I
know how to do some of that stuff by myself, but I no longer consider it
a necessary part of the process. I agree with Bill, use 64Studio,
PlanetCCRMA, or some other optimized distro and save yourself time and
energy.
Best,
dp